I'm serializing a form in Dart into JSON then posting it to a Spring MVC backend using Jackson to deserialize the JSON.
In dart, if I print out the JSON, I'm getting:
{firstName: piet, lastName: venter}
Jackson doesn't like the data in this format, it returns a status 400 and The request sent by the client was syntactically incorrect.
If I put quotes around all the fields, Jackson accepts the data and I get a response back.
{"firstName": "piet", "lastName": "venter"}
In dart I build a Map<String, String> data = {};
then loop through all form fields and do data.putIfAbsent(input.name, () => input.value);
Now when I call data.toString()
, I get the unquoted JSON which I'm guessing is invalid JSON.
If I import 'dart:convert' show JSON;
and try JSON.encode(data).toString();
I get the same unquoted JSON.
Manually appending double-quotes seems to work:
data.putIfAbsent("\"" + input.name + "\"", () => "\"" + input.value + "\"");
On the Java side there's no rocket science:
@Controller
@RequestMapping("/seller")
@JsonIgnoreProperties(ignoreUnknown = true)
public class SellerController {
@ResponseBody
@RequestMapping(value = "/create", method = RequestMethod.POST, headers = {"Content-Type=application/json"})
public Seller createSeller(@RequestBody Seller sellerRequest){
So my question, is there a less hacky way in Dart to build quoted JSON (other than manually escaping quotes and adding quotes manually) that Jackson expects? Can Jackson be configured to allow unquoted JSON ?